Updates Archives
Monthly updates for November 2019
Azure Cognitive Services Translator Text – Maori language now available
Target availability: Q4 2019
Translator Text now supports the Maori language.
PostgreSQL and MySQL and MariaDB General Purpose Large-Scale Storage Meter ID and Name Changes
Effective 1 January 2020, the meter IDs and names of Azure Database for PostgreSQL and MySQL and MariaDB General Purpose -Large-Scale Storage will change.
Azure Data Share dataset movement meter name changes
Effective 1 January 2020, the meter names for Azure Data Share dataset movement – vCore will change.
Azure Data Box Edge (now Azure Stack Edge) meter name changes
Azure Data Box Edge is now Azure Stack Edge. Starting on 1 January 2020, meter names in US Gov regions will change when the service becomes generally available.
Azure Stack and Azure Data Box Edge meter name changes
Effective 1 January 2020, the meter names of Azure Stack and Data Box Edge will change.
Azure Functions premium plan meter ID changes
Starting on 1 January 2020, Azure Functions premium plan meter ID names will change.
New Dashboard with Cost Estimator
Azure Lab Services added a dashboard view enabling instructors to view the summary of the lab
IoT Hub new features now available for device and module twins
Announcing several feature improvements for Azure IoT Hub device and module twins, namely the support for deep property nesting, and increases to the twin document max. size and key/value lengths.
Understand Kubernetes cluster health with Azure Monitor for containers
Azure Monitor for containers can now monitor and report the health status of Kubernetes cluster infrastructure components and all nodes running on any Kubernetes cluster.
Monitor Azure Red Hat OpenShift Kubernetes clusters with Azure Monitor for containers
We are now supporting in public preview monitoring for Azure Red Hat OpenShift Kubernetes clusters in Azure Monitor for containers.
Azure Database for PostgreSQL single server is now available in Switzerland regions
Azure Database for PostgreSQL is now generally available in the recently announced regions of Switzerland.
Azure Database for MariaDB server is now available in Switzerland regions
Azure Database for MariaDB is now generally available in the recently announced regions of Switzerland.
Azure Database for MySQL is now available in Switzerland regions
Azure Database for MySQL is now generally available in the recently announced regions of Switzerland.
Azure Site Recovery is now available in new Azure regions
Azure Site Recovery is now available in Norway East and Norway West Azure regions.
Microsoft cloud in Norway opens with availability of Microsoft Azure
Microsoft announces the availability of Microsoft Azure from our new cloud data centre regions in Norway, marking a major milestone as the first global cloud service provider to deliver enterprise-grade services in country.
Azure App Service - Increased scale-out limits for Premium v2 plans
Azure App Service has increased the maximum scale out limit for PremiumV2 app service plans to 30 instances in select regions around the world.
HPC Specialized VMs (GPU) - NVv4-Series in preview
NVv4-Series VMs are now available in preview in South Central US and West Europe regions
Azure Media Services now supports live transcription in preview
Azure Media Services provides a platform which you can use to ingest, transcode, and dynamically package and encrypt your live video for delivery. Live transcriptions is a new feature in the Azure Media Services v3 APIs, wherein you can enhance the streams delivered to your viewers with machine-generated text that is transcribed from spoken words in the audio feed.
Enhanced observability for event-driven applications with Azure Event Grid now in preview
Azure Event Grid now integrates with Azure Monitor alerts.
Publish to Azure Active Directory protected endpoints from Azure Event Grid now in preview
Azure Event Grid can now publish events to AAD-protected endpoints
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